Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
The 250th anniversary of the birth of the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich has been marked by a series of exhibitions across Europe, with the first full retrospective in the United States opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in February 2025
From the archive | Book review: How Caspar David Friedrich's star rose in the age of post-modernism
A magnificent visual record of the work of the German artist, who was virtually unknown before the 1960s, is matched by its scholarly text
The Big Review: Caspar David Friedrich at the Hamburger Kunsthalle ★★★★★
This curatorial triumph highlights the measured artificiality of the German Romantic artist who made work that still mesmerises
From the archive | Caspar David Friedrich, the universal Romantic artist
The publication of a new monograph on Caspar David Friedrich neatly coincides with the opening of the National Gallery’s exhibition of 19th-century German paintings on loan from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Caspar David Friedrich: his rise from obscurity to fame
Slew of shows this year mark 250th anniversary of German artist who, as a favourite of Hitler, had fallen out of favour
From the archive | Caspar David Friedrich brought into focus in the first reliable catalogue raisonée of his drawings
The catalogue promises to be definitive and demonstrates why Friedrich was one of the most significant draughtsmen of his era
